Born and bred in Virginia, she graduated from high school in western Maryland, and from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Following post-grad studies at The Ohio State University, when she began writing poetry, Yvonne had a many-faceted career from paper mill lab assistant to medical librarian to slenderizing salon assistant manager to legal secretary, then became a classroom teacher and newsletter editor in Columbus, Ohio. She began publishing her poetry in 1979, and has been studying and practicing the Japanese forms since 1983. Her first haiku collection won the 1989 Cicada Award and publication from Amelia Magazine. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in the U.S., Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.K., where she has won numerous awards. After 20 years of publishing, she says her "other" poetry has been deeply affected by her haiku studies, and her experience as a Western poet has informed her Japanese poetry. Never before has she felt so close to her natural world and the people in it than through haiku and tanka. She has taught the forms in public school classes, community workshops, and various poetry organizations. Haiku Poets of Northern California, Haiku Society of America, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Snapshots Haiku Calendar, tangled hair, still, New Zealand Poetry Society, Amelia, Japan Air Lines, Canada, and the Hoshi-Mori International Tanka Competition. Whalebone and Royal Blood, saying enough, and Greatest Hits (chapbooks); Women Writing After a Long Silence; Living Inland; Wind Five-Folded; Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, 1996, William J. Higginson; A Gathering of Poets; Heiwa; and The Red Moon Anthology (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001); several textbooks including How to Write and Publish Poetry, by Larry Gross. Previous credits include: Dragonfly, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Geppo, Brussels Sprout, Haiku Headlines, Mayfly, Hummingbird, South by Southeast, The Heron's Nest, black bough, RAW NerVZ, Amelia, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pudding, The Bridge, tangled hair, still, Yankee, Voices International, and now at many sites online. Yvonne's poems have appeared on Times Square, COTA, Japan Air Lines, and she has read on radio, TV, in churches, bars, art galleries, city parks, coffee houses, arts festivals, classrooms and various organizations including AAUW and National League of American Pen Women.
haiku (in haiga): "solstice afternoon" - Palomar haiku contest - HM (1999)
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haiku: "two potholes" - Brussels Sprout (1994)
haiku: "autumn Sunday" - Modern Haiku (1999)
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